Billy Bitzer
Born: 1872-04-21 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1944-04-29
Known For: Camera
Biography
Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (April 21, 1872 – April 29, 1944) was a pioneering American cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith. In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild named him one of the ten most influential cinematographers in history. Bitzer, it is said, "developed camera techniques that set the standard for all future motion pictures." Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Bitzer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- The Méliès Mystery as Self (archive footage)
1934
- The Camera Speaks ... (Story)
1933
- Hotel Variety ... (Director of Photography)
1928
- The Battle of the Sexes ... (Director of Photography)
1925
- The Midnight Girl ... (Director of Photography)
1924
- America ... (Director of Photography)
1923
- The White Rose ... (Director of Photography)
1922
- Sure-Fire Flint ... (Director of Photography)
1921
- Orphans of the Storm ... (Director of Photography)
1920
- Way Down East ... (Director of Photography)
- The Love Flower ... (Director of Photography)
- The Idol Dancer ... (Director of Photography)
1919
- Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl ... (Director of Photography)
- A Romance of Happy Valley ... (Director of Photography)
- The Greatest Question ... (Director of Photography)
- The Fall of Babylon ... (Director of Photography)
- The Mother and the Law ... (Director of Photography)
- True Heart Susie ... (Director of Photography)
- Scarlet Days ... (Director of Photography)
- The Girl Who Stayed at Home ... (Director of Photography)
1918
- Hearts of the World ... (Director of Photography)
- The Greatest Thing in Life ... (Director of Photography)
- The Great Love ... (Director of Photography)
1916
- Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages ... (Director of Photography)
1915
- The Birth of a Nation ... (Director of Photography)
1914
- Judith of Bethulia ... (Director of Photography)
- Home, Sweet Home ... (Director of Photography)
- The Avenging Conscience ... (Director of Photography)
- Brute Force ... (Cinematography)
- The Escape ... (Director of Photography)
1913
- The Battle at Elderbush Gulch ... (Director of Photography)
- Death's Marathon ... (Cinematography)
- Two Men of the Desert ... (Director of Photography)
- The Unwelcome Guest ... (Director of Photography)
- The Lady and the Mouse ... (Director of Photography)
- The Mothering Heart ... (Director of Photography)
- Broken Ways ... (Director of Photography)
- The Wanderer ... (Director of Photography)
- An Indian's Loyalty ... (Director of Photography)
- Near To Earth ... (Camera Operator)
- The Little Tease ... (Director of Photography)
- Olaf—An Atom ... (Director of Photography)
- The Coming of Angelo ... (Cinematography)
1912
- The New York Hat ... (Director of Photography)
- A Beast at Bay ... (Director of Photography)
- An Unseen Enemy ... (Director of Photography)
- The Massacre ... (Director of Photography)
- So Near, Yet So Far ... (Director of Photography)
- The Lesser Evil ... (Director of Photography)
- My Baby ... (Director of Photography)
- A Lodging for the Night ... (Director of Photography)
- The Musketeers of Pig Alley ... (Director of Photography)
- A Temporary Truce ... (Director of Photography)
- The Burglar’s Dilemma ... (Director of Photography)
- Lena and the Geese ... (Director of Photography)
- Friends ... (Director of Photography)
- The School Teacher and the Waif ... (Director of Photography)
- A Pueblo Legend ... (Cinematography)
- The Painted Lady ... (Director of Photography)
- The Sunbeam ... (Director of Photography)
- The Sands of Dee ... (Cinematography)
- A String of Pearls ... (Director of Photography)
- The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch ... (Director of Photography)
- The Mender of Nets ... (Director of Photography)
- A Feud in the Kentucky Hills ... (Director of Photography)
- The Root of Evil ... (Director of Photography)
- Iola's Promise ... (Director of Photography)
- One Is Business, the Other Crime ... (Director of Photography)
- The Girl and Her Trust ... (Director of Photography)
1911
- Her Sacrifice ... (Cinematography)
- Paradise Lost ... (Cinematography)
- The Blind Princess and the Poet ... (Cinematography)
- A Knight of the Road ... (Cinematography)
- The Diamond Star ... (Cinematography)
- The Indian Brothers ... (Cinematography)
- A Country Cupid ... (Cinematography)
- How She Triumphed ... (Cinematography)
- Teaching Dad to Like Her ... (Director of Photography)
- The New Dress ... (Cinematography)
- The Miser's Heart ... (Director of Photography)
- Fate's Turning ... (Cinematography)
- The Spanish Gypsy ... (Cinematography)
- The Two Paths ... (Cinematography)
- The Battle ... (Director of Photography)
- Fighting Blood ... (Cinematography)
- The Sorrowful Example ... (Cinematography)
- Enoch Arden ... (Director of Photography)
- Enoch Arden: Part II ... (Director of Photography)
- The Broken Cross ... (Cinematography)
- His Trust ... (Director of Photography)
- When a Man Loves ... (Director of Photography)
- The Thief and the Girl ... (Cinematography)
- The Long Road ... (Director of Photography)
- His Trust Fulfilled ... (Director of Photography)
- The Making of a Man ... (Director of Photography)
- The Lonedale Operator ... (Director of Photography)
- The Primal Call ... (Director of Photography)
- Bobby the Coward ... (Cinematography)
- Fisher Folks ... (Director of Photography)
- The Last Drop of Water ... (Director of Photography)
- Madame Rex ... (Cinematography)
- The Adventures of Billy ... (Cinematography)
- Saved from Himself ... (Cinematography)
- Swords and Hearts ... (Director of Photography)
- The Squaw's Love ... (Cinematography)
- What Shall We Do with Our Old? ... (Cinematography)
- The Unveiling ... (Cinematography)
- The Trail of Books ... (Director of Photography)
- The Italian Barber ... (Cinematography)
- Enoch Arden: Part I ... (Director of Photography)
- The Rose of Kentucky ... (Director of Photography)
- Heart Beats of Long Ago ... (Cinematography)
- The Revenue Man and His Girl ... (Cinematography)
- Italian Blood ... (Director of Photography)
- The Voice of the Child ... (Director of Photography)
1910
- The Refuge ... (Cinematography)
- Muggsy's First Sweetheart ... (Cinematography)
- Ramona ... (Director of Photography)
- Sunshine Sue ... (Director of Photography)
- The Honor of His Family ... (Director of Photography)
- As It Is in Life ... (Cinematography)
- In Old California ... (Cinematography)
- A Child's Impulse ... (Cinematography)
- The Unchanging Sea ... (Director of Photography)
- That Chink at Golden Gulch ... (Cinematography)
- The Face at the Window ... (Cinematography)
- A Flash of Light ... (Director of Photography)
- The Oath and the Man ... (Cinematography)
- Waiter No. 5 ... (Director of Photography)
- The Rocky Road ... (Cinematography)
- In the Border States ... (Director of Photography)
- The Usurer ... (Director of Photography)
- An Arcadian Maid ... (Cinematography)
- Wilful Peggy ... (Director of Photography)
- A Child of the Ghetto ... (Cinematography)
- The Call ... (Cinematography)
- The House with Closed Shutters ... (Director of Photography)
- The Two Brothers ... (Cinematography)
- The Newlyweds ... (Cinematography)
- The Modern Prodigal ... (Cinematography)
- What the Daisy Said ... (Director of Photography)
- The Lesson ... (Director of Photography)
- The Sorrows of the Unfaithful ... (Cinematography)
- Love Among the Roses ... (Cinematography)
- Rose o' Salem Town ... (Director of Photography)
- Winning Back His Love ... (Cinematography)
- The Fugitive ... (Director of Photography)
- The Cloister’s Touch ... (Cinematography)
- The Golden Supper ... (Cinematography)
- Faithful ... (Cinematography)
- The Iconoclast ... (Director of Photography)
- Over Silent Paths ... (Cinematography)
- Her Terrible Ordeal ... (Cinematography)
1909
- 1776, or The Hessian Renegades ... (Director of Photography)
- Leather Stocking ... (Cinematography)
- The Renunciation ... (Cinematography)
- To Save Her Soul ... (Director of Photography)
- Edgar Allen Poe ... (Director of Photography)
- The Cricket on the Hearth ... (Cinematography)
- Lady Helen's Escapade ... (Cinematography)
- At the Altar ... (Director of Photography)
- A Corner in Wheat ... (Director of Photography)
- The Country Doctor ... (Director of Photography)
- The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals ... (Director of Photography)
- A Strange Meeting ... (Cinematography)
- Pippa Passes ... (Cinematography)
- The Gibson Goddess ... (Cinematography)
- The Slave ... (Cinematography)
- The Sealed Room ... (Director of Photography)
- The Mountaineer's Honor ... (Director of Photography)
- The Lonely Villa ... (Director of Photography)
- The Cord of Life ... (Director of Photography)
- In Old Kentucky ... (Cinematography)
- What Drink Did ... (Director of Photography)
- The Voice of the Violin ... (Cinematography)
- A Trap for Santa Claus ... (Director of Photography)
- Getting Even ... (Director of Photography)
- Sweet and Twenty ... (Director of Photography)
- They Would Elope ... (Director of Photography)
- The Little Darling ... (Director of Photography)
- The Necklace ... (Director of Photography)
- Resurrection ... (Cinematography)
- The Day After ... (Director of Photography)
- A Change of Heart ... (Cinematography)
- The Girls and Daddy ... (Cinematography)
- The Broken Locket ... (Director of Photography)
- Tender Hearts ... (Cinematography)
- The Awakening ... (Cinematography)
- Nursing a Viper ... (Cinematography)
- The Light That Came ... (Cinematography)
- The Lure of the Gown ... (Cinematography)
- The Indian Runner's Romance ... (Cinematography)
- Her First Biscuits ... (Cinematography)
- What's Your Hurry? ... (Cinematography)
- The Maniac Cook ... (Director of Photography)
- The Peachbasket Hat ... (Cinematography)
- Confidence ... (Cinematography)
- Two Memories ... (Director of Photography)
- Lines of White on a Sullen Sea ... (Director of Photography)
- The Son's Return ... (Director of Photography)
- The Curtain Pole ... (Story)
- The Criminal Hypnotist ... (Director of Photography)
- Lucky Jim
- The Redman's View ... (Director of Photography)
- Fools of Fate ... (Cinematography)
- Mr. Jones' Burglar ... (Cinematography)
- Through the Breakers ... (Director of Photography)
- The Mended Lute ... (Cinematography)
- The Honor of Thieves ... (Director of Photography)
- The Faded Lilies ... (Cinematography)
- The Violin Maker of Cremona ... (Cinematography)
- A Drunkard's Reformation ... (Director of Photography)
- His Duty ... (Cinematography)
- The Salvation Army Lass ... (Cinematography)
- The Way of Man ... (Director of Photography)
- The Suicide Club ... (Director of Photography)
- Those Awful Hats ... (Director of Photography)
- The Cardinal's Conspiracy ... (Cinematography)
- The Restoration ... (Cinematography)
- Oh, Uncle! ... (Cinematography)
- The Fascinating Mrs. Francis ... (Director of Photography)
- The Politician's Love Story ... (Cinematography)
- The Sacrifice ... (Director of Photography)
- Mr. Jones Has a Card Party ... (Director of Photography)
- Comata, the Sioux ... (Director of Photography)
- The Welcome Burglar ... (Director of Photography)
- Love Finds a Way ... (Director of Photography)
- A Rural Elopement ... (Director of Photography)
1908
- King of the Cannibal Islands ... (Director of Photography)
- Over the Hills to the Poor House ... (Director of Photography)
- A Smoked Husband ... (Cinematography)
- The Valet's Wife ... (Director of Photography)
- Caught by Wireless ... (Cinematography)
- Father Gets in the Game ... (Director of Photography)
- Mr. Jones at the Ball ... (Director of Photography)
- Old Isaacs, the Pawnbroker ... (Cinematography)
- Romance of a Jewess ... (Cinematography)
- The Sculptor's Nightmare ... (Cinematography)
- The Taming of the Shrew ... (Director of Photography)
- The Call of the Wild ... (Cinematography)
- Her First Adventure ... (Cinematography)
- The Black Viper ... (Cinematography)
- Deceived Slumming Party ... (Cinematography)
- Money Mad ... (Director of Photography)
- The Zulu's Heart ... (Director of Photography)
- When Knights Were Bold ... (Director of Photography)
- The Planter's Wife ... (Cinematography)
- The Adventures of Dollie ... (Director)
- The Invisible Fluid ... (Director of Photography)
- A Calamitous Elopement ... (Cinematography)
- The Song of the Shirt ... (Cinematography)
- Betrayed by a Handprint ... (Cinematography)
- Hulda's Lovers ... (Director of Photography)
- After Many Years ... (Cinematography)
- The Princess in the Vase ... (Cinematography)
- Professional Jealousy ... (Cinematography)
- The Outlaw ... (Cinematography)
- Where the Breakers Roar ... (Cinematography)
- Mixed Babies ... (Cinematography)
- A Famous Escape ... (Cinematography)
- The King's Messenger ... (Director of Photography)
- The Christmas Burglars ... (Director of Photography)
- The Guerrilla ... (Cinematography)
- The Feud and the Turkey ... (Cinematography)
- 'Ostler Joe ... (Cinematography)
- The Music Master ... (Director of Photography)
- Bobby's Kodak ... (Cinematography)
1907
- Mr. Hurry-up ... (Director of Photography)
- Jamestown Exposition ... (Camera Operator)
- Trial Marriages ... (Director of Photography)
- Fights of Nations ... (Director of Photography)
1906
- San Francisco Disaster ... (Cinematography)
- Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium ... (Director of Photography)
- San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake ... (Director of Photography)
- Married for Millions ... (Director of Photography)
- The Impossible Convicts ... (Cinematography)
- Logging in Maine ... (Director)
- From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies ... (Director of Photography)
1905
- 2 A.M. in the Subway ... (Cinematography)
- Duel Scene from Macbeth ... (Cinematography)
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son ... (Director of Photography)
- New York Subway ... (Director)
- A Trip to Salt Lake City ... (Director of Photography)
- Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room ... (Director of Photography)
- The Broker's Athletic Typewriter ... (Cinematography)
- She Banked in Her Stocking; or, Robbed of Her All ... (Director of Photography)
- Spirit of '76 ... (Cinematography)
- Latina, Contortionist ... (Director of Photography)
- The Summer Boarders ... (Cinematography)
- A Ballroom Tragedy ... (Director of Photography)
- Lifting the Lid ... (Cinematography)
- In the Swimming Pool, Palm Beach, Florida ... (Camera Operator)
- A Pipe Dream ... (Cinematography)
- Bathing in the Ice at the L Street Bath, Boston ... (Director of Photography)
- A Kentucky Feud ... (Director of Photography)
- Teasing ... (Cinematography)
- Wrestling at the New York Athletic Club ... (Director)
1904
- Westinghouse Works ... (Director of Photography)
- Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room ... (Director of Photography)
- The Battle of the Yalu ... (Cinematography)
- Assembling a Generator ... (Director)
- Coil Winding Section E ... (Director)
- Assembling and Testing Turbines ... (Director)
- Coil Winding Machines ... (Director)
- Girls Taking Time Checks ... (Director of Photography)
- Alone ... (Director of Photography)
- The Lost Child ... (Cinematography)
- Automobiling Among the Clouds ... (Director of Photography)
- The Baby and the Puppies ... (Cinematography)
- Children in the Surf at Coney Island ... (Director)
- The Chicken Thief ... (Director of Photography)
- Casting a Guide Box ... (Director)
- Taping Coils ... (Director)
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene) ... (Director)
- Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works ... (Director)
- Personal ... (Director of Photography)
- The Coney Island Beach Patrol ... (Director)
- Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle ... (Director of Photography)
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene) ... (Director)
- Testing a Rotary ... (Director of Photography)
- Tapping a Furnace ... (Director)
- The Hero of Liao-Yang ... (Director of Photography)
- Steam Whistle ... (Director)
- Welding the Big Ring ... (Director)
- Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup ... (Cinematography)
- A Cake Walk on the Beach at Coney Island ... (Director)
- Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works ... (Director)
- Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works ... (Director)
- The Widow and the Only Man ... (Cinematography)
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. ... (Director)
- The Swimming Class ... (Cinematography)
- Girls Winding Armatures ... (Director)
- Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works ... (Director)
- Steam Hammer ... (Director)
- The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge ... (Cinematography)
1903
- Strictly Fresh Eggs ... (Camera Operator)
- A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out ... (Director of Photography)
- Expert Bag Punching ... (Director)
- The Boy In The Barrel ... (Camera Operator)
- Happy Hooligan Interferes ... (Director of Photography)
- Hooligan in Jail ... (Director of Photography)
- Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians ... (Director of Photography)
- Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Oration ... (Director)
- N.Y. Fire Department Returning ... (Director)
- Weighing the Baby ... (Director of Photography)
- Orphans in the Surf ... (Director)
- Murder Scene from "King of the Detectives" ... (Director of Photography)
- The Fate of the Artist's Model ... (Director of Photography)
- The Physical Culture Girl, No. 2 ... (Director of Photography)
- The Haymarket ... (Director of Photography)
- The Dude and the Burglars ... (Director of Photography)
- Betsy Ross Dance ... (Director of Photography)
- Willie's Camera ... (Director of Photography)
- The Physical Culture Girl, No. 1 ... (Director of Photography)
- The Giddy Dancing Master ... (Director of Photography)
- Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling Bout ... (Cinematography)
1902
- Baby in a Rage ... (Camera Operator)
1901
- The Georgetown Loop (Colorado) ... (Director of Photography)
- President McKinley Inauguration ... (Director)
1899
- Stealing a Dinner ... (Director of Photography)
- Across Brooklyn Bridge ... (Director)
- Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge ... (Director)
1897
- At the Top of Brooklyn Bridge ... (Director)
1896
- McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio ... (Director of Photography)
- Hard Wash ... (Cinematography)
- American Falls from Luna Island ... (Cinematography)
- Little Egypt ... (Camera Operator)
- American Falls from Goat Island ... (Cinematography)